The Unavoidable

Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly.   While any meal with low preparation time can be considered fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with low quality preparation and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away (“Fast”).   Fast food can be found everywhere in daily life.   From pie, sandwich, pizza, noodles, and kebabs to the “American” fast foods such as burgers, hot dog, ice cream cones, and ice tea (“Fast”).   Like it or not, America has grown to be a fast-food nation.   People have been trying to avoid fast-food business and try to eat healthy, but they forgot what a fast food business means.   A fast food business is any restaurant “that dispenses food, to stay or to go, and that has a limited menu, items prepared in advance or prepared or heated quickly, no table orders, and food served in disposable wrapping or containers” (Severson F1).   This definition can include school cafeterias, dine-in buffets, and other places that people cannot avoid.   One statistic of fast food consumption in America is “an average of 159 fast food meals each year" per person (Aicardi).   This shows that even though fast food has been labeled with bad reputation, people know the true benefit behind it all such as health benefit, convenient, and affordable price.
      First, the impact of fast food on someone’s health is in question.   One of the benefits is the satisfactory calories that a person gets from fast food.   A single meal from fast-food restaurants contains enough calories to satisfy a person’s caloric requirement per meal (NIH).   This condition makes the person feel full; therefore, he will not be snacking for the rest of the day.   It is also important to remember that the consumption of fast food itself cannot be accompanied with salad dressing or mayonnaise included in the meal.   Instead,   the salad dressing or mayonnaise should be “on the side” and used sparingly so...